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Legislation that gives landowners an early edge in court on certain disputes over mineral rights recently cleared the Pennsylvania Senate Environment Resources and Energy Committee.

San Miguel Electric Coop is a Texas nonprofit electric cooperative that owns and operates a power plant that supplies electricity to 38 Texas counties

Trigger warning for Texas readers: This entry will discuss forced pooling.

Think beyond compliance. Providing the right information will enable smart operators to shape the message existing and potential investors receive under the new specialized SEC disclosure regime.

We recently attended the 2024 Financial Times Mining Summit in London, joining the sector's leading voices exploring the latest trends, innovations, and challenges.

Culminating a whirlwind 36 hours, the North Carolina legislature has voted to override Governor Beverly Purdue’s veto of Senate Bill 820, the Clean Energy & Economic Security Act.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) will have expanded powers of the purse and oversight under the shale impact-fee legislation recently signed into law by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett.

On August 7, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit rejected a determination of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pursuant to agency policy that functionally related gas facilities, including a sweetening plant and roughly 100 natural gas wells spread out over a 43-square-mile area, should be treated as a single "major" source for the purposes of regulation under the federal Clean Air Act (CAA).

The Supreme Court issued its much anticipated decision this week addressing the jurisdictional boundaries between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ("Corps") and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") in permitting activities that may constitute both a wetlands fill and a pollution discharge under the Clean Water Act ("CWA").

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the Eighth Circuit's April 2015 ruling that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' jurisdictional determinations are final agency actions subject to judicial review.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the Eighth Circuit's April 2015 ruling that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' jurisdictional determinations are final agency actions subject to judicial review.

On February 22, 2022, the US Department of the Interior (Interior) announced the launch of a new interagency working group (Working Group) on reforming hardrock...

On Tuesday, July 31, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia1 ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) overstepped its statutory authority under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA).

On December 10, 2024, by voice vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act of 2024. The bill has been published in the Congressional Record.

Based on immediate reactions to the long-awaited final "Phase II" NEPA regulations, one might think that the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) substantially altered long-standing...

The mining and resources downturn is bringing forward the closure of many of Australia's ageing smelters, steelworks, power stations and mines and their corresponding environmental rehabilitation obligations.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed specific rules to implement the Dodd-Frank Act requirements for audits and reports by public companies to show whether certain minerals used in their manufactured goods originate in war-torn Congo or adjoining countries in Africa.

The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance issued a statement on Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the conflict minerals rule) reaffirming the need for companies to complete their due diligence efforts and make the required reporting by June 2, 2014, the deadline for the first round of reporting on 2013 activity.